I would say all of those things are great outlets of spontaneous expression with the aid of entheogens.
Dance, I first opened myself up to dancing with the aid of various substances. LSd at my first festival, it was natural. Just felt myself getting into the groove and it just happens. I also tuned into how it felt to express myself through my body, and it is wonderful. A few experiences with MDMA helped opened this up even further, and my love for dancing and movement has flourished. I like to combine breath awareness with movement to get into the flow.
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Yoga, my interest in yoga started after my explorations with entheogens. After my first two mushroom trips the concept and practice of meditation seemed to resonate in my life. Then after a very intense and breakthrough experience while on mushrooms and a couple hits of lsd after a shpongle show. I became immensely aware of the flow of energy. This opened me up to my interest in yoga and kundalini. And books like Be Here Now.
After my first drum circle at a festival I fell in love with drums. They go incredibly well with entheogens, I find hearing your mind expressed through an instrument is empowering in non ordinary states of consciousness. It can help ground and focus the energy and emotions flowing out during a trip. I have not tried my flutes with psychedelics yet, but I am excited.
The first time a tried vaporized dmt was a few years ago. I acquired some from a friend, and it was probably 6 months till I got up the strength to try it. I built the machine, and vaporized it with a fellow explorer. I was takin in with a bright white light and had this slight amnesiac feeling/vision of a woman and some other beings in a waiting room.
It was a very light experience. Definitly sub-breakthrough.
I have actually never entirely broken through on DMT yet. I have tried it a few times since and all have been subbreakthrough, but I always feel cleansed and refreshed afterwords.
Hmmm, a few other things to mention:
My first real psychedelic experience: Breakthrough dose of salvia.
Started with a couple hits of pot out of our homemade bong from a ceramic bowl, glass vase, and actual automotive carborator.
I began slowly rocking back and forth as the plant energy seeped into my consciousness. Then we packed the salvia, 45x i believe.
I was first, I held the torch lighter over it and took the biggest hit i could. Held it in for probably 20 seconds, but after about 10 it seemed to stretch out as the effects took hold. Managed to take one more hit in before I laid back looking up at the twisted trees and vines shelting up above.
As I laid there, I recall a pins and needles effect. My attempt to hang on to any mental familiarity and comfort was seen physically by my body clawing into the dirt. The earth and everything with it was shifting and turning upside down, there was no hanging on.
As I laid down and looked up again, the trees had now formed a massive ferris wheel composed of rotating dead bodies. This was not just a visual sensation, as I looked up I was continually shifting through different potential "realities" or doors my life could go through. All these different me's in constant circulation. Every one a different life I could have lived.
This continued for a time not recognizable in the state. IT turned out to actually have been over an hour. I was still in this flux state of perceptual chaos when my friends were ready to leave. With there assistance I made it onto my feet. Everything was still shifting but we made our way out of the secret passage into the woods. The plants were moving and the earth was shifting with every step. We made it through my friends basement door and I crawled into bed. The covers were devouring my body/
That night I dreamed I was up in the mountains, by a waterfall. I was surrounded by rainbow colored cats. On top of this mountain we discovered giant glowing emeralds.
One extraordinary thing about salvia is the feeling afterwords. For myself and one of my fellow companions, there is a euphoric appreciation to "Be Back". Settled into this reality, ordinary state of consiousness. A renewed appreciation for life after the dysphoric and sheer intensity you have gone through.
It has been 5 years since I have explored with the sage plant ally.
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I have not explored these realms much lately, I moved back home and it just hasnt happened in a while. I have been feeling the call for a while now though, so I am in the process of preparing for further explorations into the depths of consciousness and essence of self. I would like to have dmt as one of the tools.